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Seattle MISS Coordinator, Board Member
Kara Jones is a bereaved mum to
Dakota Jones, stillborn March 11, 1999. She is a co-facilitator of
the WA MISS Chapter's Infant Death Group in the Pacific NW and is
the moderator for the Permanent Infertility Board on the National
MISS Foundation site. She holds a seat on the WA MISS Board as well
as on the National MISS Parent's Advisory Board. She is a graduate
of Carnegie Mellon University holding degrees in both Creative Writing
and Cultural Theory with a minor in Early Childhood Development.
She trained and worked for three years with Fred Rogers and Hedda
Sharapan at Family Communications, Inc., producers of Mister Rogers'
Neighborhood from 1992-95. After Dakota's death in 1999, she and
her husband Hawk founded KotaPress to publish works about the uses
of art during grief & healing. It is through KotaPress that they
publish the book Mrs. Duck and The Woman and are working on the Mrs.
Duck Project. On their website www.KotaPress.com ,
they publish a Loss Support Journal which has gained a world-wide
readership. They also started the zine "A Different Kind of
Parenting" where they explore, not only the grief, but the entire
scope of parenthood and how it is redefined after a child dies. Kara
continues to explore art in many different mediums from the written
word to altered manuscripts, from henna body art to theater.
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